Quit Fantasizing About Quitting and Burning It All to the Ground

A woman won the lottery and celebrated by defecating on her boss’s desk. So the story goes. The internet reacted with cheers and/or scorn, depending on each person’s own secret dreams and resentments. The story, it turns out, is just a story. The original report of the incident is so exaggerated you’d think it would be […]

LinkedIn Upgrades Recruiter: What You Need to Know

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LinkedIn has announced the upgrade of their Recruiter platform, the first since 2013. Recruiter is LinkedIn’s flagship premium recruiting product used by over 40,000 subscribers. The new version is now being offered as an upgrade on a rolling basis to the global user base. LinkedIn Upgrades Recruiter While Recruiter is the “top of the line” […]

Ep 77 – The Future of Job Boards and Hiring Effectiveness

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  Despite even me calling for the end to job boards in a 2011 post called “Chicken Little, the Job Boards Are Failing,”  job boards remain a powerful recruiting strategy for effective hiring. According to CareerXroads 2015 Source of Hire Study, job boards account for nearly 10% of all hires not including job aggregators which account […]

How to Use Social Media to Hire for Free!

How to Use Social Media to Hire for Free Hiring isn’t all job boards and referrals anymore. More and more, companies are finding innovative ways to find new hires. One of those ways is through social media. In fact, J.P. Morgan recently made the news when they used Snapchat to hire summer interns. While the […]

If You Have Humans, You Need Human Resources

Is it time to talk about the end of/death of/extermination with prejudice of HR again? Oh great! I know, I know, “everyone hates HR” just like “everyone hates lawyers,” so when the mandatory seasonal think pieces on the much-looked-for death of HR come along, we’re supposed to take our knocks and accept it as due. Some of […]

Guide to Tackling Uncomfortable Workplace Conversations

This post is sponsored by BreatheHR. Employee friendly HR software designed to help tame your business.  We can all remember back to our childhood days and the ‘stinky kid’ in our classroom. It’s easy to imagine that as we mature into adulthood, everyone picks up the social cues that good personal hygiene is a necessity […]